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Summer Seasonal Hiring Expected to Increase

Forty-one percent of employers plan to hire seasonal workers for the summer and 88 percent expect to transition some of those summer hires into permanent roles, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey.

Why are employers transitioning workers from seasonal to permanent? “Employers are grappling with a tough hiring environment, and summer workers are reaping the benefits,” said Irina Novoselsky, president and COO of CareerBuilder, in a press release. “Employers are becoming more competitive with pay and offering more long-term employment opportunities to summer workers.”

This could be the reason why, of the employers hiring seasonal workers, one in four plan to pay summer hires $15 or more per hour.

Not all employers hiring summer workers are associated with recreation and outdoor work, many are in offices or other corporate settings. Some of the other industries hiring include:

Customer Service: 25 percent

IT: 25 percent

Office Support: 25 percent

Engineering: 18 percent

Manufacturing: 16 percent

Sales: 15 percent

However, some summer jobs are more unique than others. When the survey asked employees what their must unusual summer job was, their answers included:

Teaching ice skating classes

Ambulance driver

All-girl valet parking crew

Assembly line worker for loose-leaf binders

Candling eggs

Detasseling corn

Killing mosquitos

Picking pineapples in Hawaii

Scaring seagulls off roofs

Senior citizen softball league umpire

Worm farmer

Hiring Teens

Pay attention to California and federal laws regulating the employment of minors if you hire teen workers. These laws restrict the occupations and hours that minors may work and require work permits and special record-keeping.

With limited exceptions, all minors must have a work permit, even for those summer jobs when school is not in session.